Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the early Quakers went barefoot, some in sackcloth, some even naked. In moments of great fervor they exhibited violent physical reactions, and it was their contention that those who did not know "quaking and trembling" had not found the "Christ within." To this is ascribed the name "Quakers," given them in derision in the first years of the movement...
Fifteen years ago Wall Street was Arcady for Richard D. Wyckoff. He had a good name-editor and financier. He had a magazine, a big bank book, a glass-topped desk. And he had a pretty brunette for stenographer...
Last week he crawled into court and confessed that the pretty brunette has everything that once was his: name, magazine, bank book, glass-topped desk, stenographers aplenty of her own. He wanted some of it back again...
...story is familiar enough in the financial district of New York, where the memory of Wyckoff hovers ghostlike in many an office corner, and the name of Cecelia G. Wyckoff is flaunted fortnightly at the masthead of the Magazine of Wall Street. The chapters of it fall into the following sequence...
More and more gallant did Wyckoff become. He bought nine and a half acres at Great Neck, L. L, and built a $250,000 home, all of which at his young wife's gentle suggestion he put in her name. In 1916 he assigned to her the balance of the stock of the Ticker Publishing Co., except for i% which he kept...